YO31 house prices are built from 16,245 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 25 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £159,950. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +41.5% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +1.3%.
Median price paid
£159,950
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+41.5%
Change in real terms
+1.3%
Median per m²
£2,232
HM Land Registry16,245 sales4,131 with floor areaLatest sale 25 Jun 2026
Section 01
How YO31 prices moved
The chart tracks the median YO31 house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £55,500 | £123,236 |
| 2000s | 10 | £147,000 | £267,791 |
| 2010s | 10 | £180,000 | £253,800 |
| 2020s | 7 | £280,000 | £286,087 |
The highest yearly median on record for YO31 is £290,000 in 2025; the lowest is £52,000 in 1996. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £53,500 to £290,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £118,795, so the real change over the whole record is +144.1% — about +2.92% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.
Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +41.5% in cash against +1.3% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.
Section 02
The most recent sales
Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 RUSSET HOUSE Birch Close | 25 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £180,000 | £180,000 |
| 31 Lockwood Street | 16 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £318,000 | £318,000 |
| 11 Thornfield Drive | 16 Jun 2026 | Semi-detached | £260,000 | £260,000 |
| 17 Burnholme Avenue | 11 Jun 2026 | Detached | £498,000 | £498,000 |
| 27 WEALD HOUSE Birch Close | 11 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £169,000 | £169,000 |
| 8 Harrison Street | 9 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £253,000 | £253,000 |
| 9 Lowther Court | 5 Jun 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £190,000 | £190,000 |
| 142 Haxby Road | 1 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £450,000 | £450,000 |
| 50 Fountayne Street | 1 Jun 2026 | Terraced | £425,000 | £425,000 |
| 22 Neville Street | 29 May 2026 | Terraced | £340,000 | £340,000 |
| 99 Stockton Lane | 27 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £800,000 | £800,000 |
| 79 Huntington Road | 27 May 2026 | Terraced | £265,000 | £265,000 |
| 4 Clarks Terrace | 22 May 2026 | Terraced | £334,000 | £334,000 |
| 11 Lowther Court | 22 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £210,000 | £210,000 |
| APARTMENT 25 VENICE HOUSE Eboracum Way | 20 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £160,000 | £160,000 |
| 6 Portland Street | 15 May 2026 | Terraced | £495,000 | £495,000 |
| 59 Melrosegate | 15 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £385,000 | £385,000 |
| 46 Fourth Avenue | 15 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £370,000 | £370,000 |
| 88 Bramley Garth | 15 May 2026 | Terraced | £315,000 | £315,000 |
| 21 Feversham Gate | 15 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £195,000 | £195,000 |
| 5 Beech Glade | 14 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £270,000 | £270,000 |
| 26 Westlands Grove | 8 May 2026 | Semi-detached | £477,500 | £477,500 |
| 7 Harrison Street | 8 May 2026 | Terraced | £341,200 | £341,200 |
| 320 Stockton Lane | 7 May 2026 | Detached | £390,000 | £390,000 |
| APARTMENT 18 MILAN HOUSE Eboracum Way | 5 May 2026 | Flat or maisonette | £148,000 | £148,000 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to YO31 values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 RUSSET HOUSE Birch Close | £111,428 (2011) | £180,000 (2026) | +3.2% | +0.4% |
| 31 Lockwood Street | £143,000 (2007) | £318,000 (2026) | +4.3% | +1.3% |
| 11 Thornfield Drive | £56,000 (1998) | £260,000 (2026) | +5.6% | +2.9% |
| 17 Burnholme Avenue | £460,000 (2023) | £498,000 (2026) | +2.7% | +0.1% |
| 27 WEALD HOUSE Birch Close | £148,950 (2011) | £169,000 (2026) | +0.8% | -2.0% |
| 8 Harrison Street | £43,000 (1998) | £253,000 (2026) | +6.5% | +3.8% |
| 9 Lowther Court | £58,450 (1997) | £190,000 (2026) | +4.1% | +1.5% |
| 93 Lotherington Mews | £322,995 (2015) | £465,000 (2026) | +3.4% | +0.2% |
| 50 Fountayne Street | £57,500 (1998) | £425,000 (2026) | +7.4% | +4.6% |
| 142 Haxby Road | £80,000 (1996) | £450,000 (2026) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| 22 Neville Street | £185,000 (2004) | £340,000 (2026) | +2.8% | 0.0% |
| 79 Huntington Road | £44,000 (1995) | £265,000 (2026) | +6.0% | +3.3% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. YO31 is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 5,773 | 35.5% | £153,250 | £525 – £1,075,000 |
| Semi-detached | 5,720 | 35.2% | £171,500 | £595 – £1,230,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 3,109 | 19.1% | £135,950 | £20,000 – £700,000 |
| Detached | 1,643 | 10.1% | £239,950 | £27,000 – £1,680,000 |
Section 05
How big homes are in YO31
Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 4,108 certificates cover YO31, and their median floor area is 73 m².
The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are smaller than average — -3.9%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.
| Measure | Floor area | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| Median floor area | 73 m² | about 786 sq ft |
| Smaller quarter, up to | 56 m² | about 603 sq ft |
| Larger quarter, from | 96 m² | about 1,033 sq ft |
| Under 60 m² | 31.3% | 1,285 homes |
| 150 m² and over | 4.5% | 184 homes |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in YO31
3,255 of the sales on record are leasehold and 12,990 freehold — 20.0% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.
The median leasehold sale is £135,000 and the median freehold sale £170,000 — a gap of +25.9%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 3,255 | 20.0% | £135,000 |
| Freehold | 12,990 | 80.0% | £170,000 |
| New build | 1,622 | 10.0% | £150,000 |
| Existing home | 14,623 | 90.0% | £160,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -6.3%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.
A further 811 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.
Section 07
Living in YO31
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across York, 43.6% of 94,614 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.8% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 637 | 0.7% |
| B | 8,219 | 8.7% |
| C | 32,387 | 34.2% |
| D | 40,238 | 42.5% |
| E | 10,486 | 11.1% |
| F | 2,052 | 2.2% |
| G | 595 | 0.6% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in York at £1,186 a month as of Jun 2026 — £866 for a one-bedroom home and £1,265 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £159,950 here, that rent is a gross yield of 8.90% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.
Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of YO31, 435 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 131 violent, 9 burglary, 7 vehicle-related and 108 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 2.6 times busier.
Against the 202,821 residents the 2021 census counted in York, that is 2.14 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.
A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around YO31
The 2021 census counted 202,821 residents in York across 85,458 households. 65.9% of those households own their home and 33.9% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
8 state and independent schools have a YO31 postcode: 8 primary. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hempland Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 420 |
| Yearsley Grove Primary School | Primary | Community school | 385 |
| Haxby Road Primary Academy | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 293 |
| Park Grove Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 262 |
| St Wilfrid's Catholic Primary School – a Catholic Voluntary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 261 |
| Tang Hall Primary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 227 |
| St Aelred's Catholic Primary School – a Catholic Voluntary Academy | Primary | Academy converter | 175 |
| Heworth Church of England Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 142 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| York Rail Station | Rail | 2.3 km |
| Poppleton Rail Station | Rail | 5.5 km |
| Hammerton Rail Station | Rail | 14.7 km |
| Ulleskelf Rail Station | Rail | 16.2 km |
Section 09
How YO31 compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. YO31 sits above that national figure — +1.6%.
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £2,232 per square metre, across 4,131 of the 16,245 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.
The full range on record runs from £525 to £1,680,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.
YO31 sits in York, in the Yorkshire and The Humber.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in York at 7.8 times median local earnings of £39,337 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Sectors inside YO31
- YO31 0£170,000 median
- YO31 1£200,000 median
- YO31 7£152,450 median
- YO31 8£142,000 median
- YO31 9£157,000 median
The closest districts
- YO102.2 km · £155,000
- YO303.9 km · £160,000
- YO244.3 km · £159,000
- YO236.4 km · £190,000
- YO267.6 km · £174,000
- YO4218.7 km · £182,000
- YO821.0 km · £143,500
- LS2222.1 km · £239,725
This district mostly covers York.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in YO31?
The median price paid in YO31 across every sale on the register is £159,950. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.
How many homes have sold in YO31?
16,245 sales are on record for YO31, the most recent completing on 25 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have YO31 house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +41.5% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +1.3%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were YO31 house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £290,000, set in 2025. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.
What is the price per square metre in YO31?
£2,232 per square metre, from the 4,131 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.
How current is this data?
The latest sale shown here completed on 25 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.
Cite this page: Sold Price History, “YO31 house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.